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Niz Plum is super light. You can't rest your fingers on it because it will start registering keypresses. But you can type faster and with less fatigue. The downside is if you spend too much time on it you can't use a regular keyboard anymore because it feels like you're going to break your fingers LOL. Every once in a while you have to whip out a 20 year old IBM keyboard to exercise your fingers !

Loki 2y ago

Or you could do like me and type at least 5000-10000 words a day, compensating for the lower cost per keypress :D

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Dissident Sound 2y ago

it's not the same. completely different technique. walking 10 hours a day doesn't prepare you for running even 10 minutes.

with a stiff keyboard i have to lift my fingers up then deliberately hit the key using momentum, while with Niz i slide my fingers across the keys then gently apply slight pressure.

it all started with typewriters and then membrane keyboards imitated that feeling and mechanical keyboards imitated membrane keyboards and now low profile keyboards imitate laptop keyboards and so on.

so a lot of it is what people are used to and expect not what is biomechanically optimal.

Loki 2y ago

yeah, I love my chery silvers. I have seen these other types, the mechanical/optical and membrane suspended but I specifically want to get away from rubber altogether, I type so much that the switches stop working after about a year on a regular membrane keyboard, and even sooner if I also game on it at the same time. I think optical would be a good thing so long as the switching mechanism doesn't change the spring/lever mechanic.

Also, fuck what people are used to. People used to think that all women should wear 3"+ heels too, even though we haven't been riding horses for a century. Heels in general have not gone away. Also very biomechanically unsound.

Fuck their unergonomic shit. some things are worth suffering a bit of inconvenience for. I'm sure you also have an RSI/carpal tunnel story associated with the heavy and nasty stiff membrane keyboards.

Loki 2y ago

I agree in principle, the power factor is needed. Walking 10 hours on flat is not gonna help you run, but walking up 20' slopes for 10 hours a day will, because you need so much power in each step compared to on the flat.

As regards to typing, I do only have to press more lightly but my velocity is overall higher because I can now type close to 100wpm where on stiff membrane normie keyboards I topped out at 65 or so.

So the speed in this case does compensate because velocity increasing increases power.

I basically can't type on the old layout anymore tho. When I have to deal with qwerty I'm two fingers and annoyed as hell.